I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.

The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.

Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.

To be depreciated and humiliated isn't a statement of your worth but rather an evidence of your disregarded potential.

Dreams are built around the word hello, but in the end fate only knows the word goodbye.

If people ever question your loyalty, you never had theirs.

There is already enough chattering nonsense on the ground. Do we really need aviaries in pressurised tin cans at 30, 000 feet as well ?

I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.

I wish to note that the level of discourse in Nigeria is abysmally low, and, usually, garnished with character assassination. We allow our personal frustrations to becloud reason

There are two types of people in this world - those who would appear on reality television and the rest of us.

The problem of fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you do can alter the name.

It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough.

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.